Joe Biden: “Not at all. Mr. President, I welcome--not interruptions--I welcome this colloquy and conversation. I know that there is…”

“Not at all. Mr. President, I welcome--not interruptions--I welcome this colloquy and conversation. I know that there is an understanding that there will be no votes until 5 o'clock. So the likelihood of anybody other than the most stalwart of the Members of the Senate--I see the distinguished Senator from West Virginia and the distinguished Senator from North Carolina here--other than a few, there are going to be a lot of folks making their way back from the west coast and the Midwest on airplanes. So the likelihood of anything happening of consequence between now and the time that it was announced there would be a vote is de minimis. So I welcome the discussion. Let me just again, not by way of argumentation but illustration of the confusion surrounding the legislation--understandable confusion. Even if the Republican bill had not been introduced, had the President's bill been introduced and nothing else, there would be confusion surrounding it. I do not mean this in a pejorative way. The letter from the district attorney, as I understand it, from Oklahoma County, the county in which Oklahoma City is--I have not read it yet, but the fact of his rationale of why they need full habeas corpus, to have State habeas corpus included, is because there were non-Federal workers killed--understandably, he misunderstands the bill. It does not matter who is killed in the building. It is a Federal crime. That is what we are establishing. It is a Federal crime.”